If you like cream cheese mints or key-lime pie, you will love these refreshing, easy, no-bake, key-lime pie cream cheese mints!
Prep time: 15 minutes
Total time: 1 hour and 15 minutes
Everyone will love these bright, easy key-lime pie cream cheese “mints”! This bite-size dessert requires only a few pantry and fridge ingredients and is super easy to whip up! These are rich, sweet, and tart and won’t taste like the cream cheese mints your grandma used to make, but you will love this facelift!
These no-bake key-lime pie cream cheese mints are perfect for any spring and summer holiday, Easter, weddings, showers, and Christmas.
Ingredients
4 ounces of softened cream cheese
One tablespoon of softened unsalted butter
One teaspoon of lime juice concentrate
4 cups of powdered sugar
One teaspoon of freshly grated lime zest
crumbled graham cracker crumbs
Equipment
Wax Paper or Parchment Paper
Fork for pressing down your cream cheese mints
Candy Molds- if you don’t want to press the mints down with a fork.
Instructions
1. Add the softened cream cheese, butter, lime juice, and zest to a large mixing bowl. Mix well.
2. Add the powdered sugar, ½ cup at a time, and mix until you get a dough-like consistency that isn’t sticky.
3. Place the cream cheese mixture into 1/2-inch balls onto a parchment paper-lined baking sheet.
4. Press each mint down with the tines of a fork.
5. Let the mints cool for an hour in the refrigerator before serving.
Recipes Notes:
You can add food coloring to these mints if you like. I would stick with a few drops of food coloring. Stick with pastel colors if possible. You may have to estimate the amount depending on what color you want to have.
You can add more or less lime based on how strong you want them to be. You can also add some vanilla extract if you want them to taste like slice of key lime pie!
Use the paddle attachment if you use a stand mixer for this recipe.
Storage
Store your cream cheese mints in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to two weeks and in the freezer for up to one year. If you store them in the freezer, freeze them in a freezer bag, separating single layers with wax or parchment paper.
Key-Lime Pie Cream Cheese Mints
If you like cream cheese mints or key-lime pie, you will love these easy key-lime pie cream cheese mints!
Ingredients
- 4 ounces softened cream cheese
- 1 tablespoon softened butter
- 1 teaspoon lime juice concentrate
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon freshly grated lime zest
Instructions
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Add the softened cream cheese, butter, lime extract, and zest to a large mixing bowl. Mix well.
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Add the powdered sugar, ½ cup at a time, and mix until you get a dough-like consistency that isn’t sticky.
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Place the cream cheese mixture into 1/2-inch balls onto a parchment paper-lined baking sheet.
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Press each mint down with the tines of a fork.
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Let the mints cool for an hour in the refrigerator before serving.
Cream cheese contains protein, potassium, cholesterol, and carbohydrates.
Cream cheese mints are one of my favorite treats. Try a few of my other flavors for “wedding mints.”
Cinnamon Cream Cheese “Mints”
Funfetti Cream Cheese Mints
Oreo Chocolate Cream Cheese Mints
Cream Cheese Mint Cookies
Cream Cheese Mint Shaped Pumpkins
Did you make these key lime pie cream cheese mints? I would love to hear how they turned out for you! Please comment below this blog post or tag me on social media and let me know how they turned out for you! You can find me on Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
